<![CDATA[Character]]>Character.AI, the GenAI site that convinced some children to kill themselves, has gone bankrupt after parents sued them.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-character-ai-bankruptcy

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/bf5bee8f-7414-42aa-bf3b-779a7bd81629/characterRSS for NodeSun, 01 Nov 2026 10:25:55 GMTTue, 13 Oct 2026 22:22:51 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:42:01 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog you love to see it

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://neuromatch.social/users/fancysandwiches/statuses/117437190703382959https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://neuromatch.social/users/fancysandwiches/statuses/117437190703382959Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:42:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:08:22 GMT]]>@crecente @GossiTheDog that is so fucked up. Sorry to hear that.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/ringtail/statuses/117437058422961886https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/ringtail/statuses/117437058422961886Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:08:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:55:16 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog So... the grieving families at least get some compensation? No? Because the companies controlling the debt get money first?
Can we at least get all C levels into jail?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/drchaos/statuses/117437006924413875https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/drchaos/statuses/117437006924413875Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:55:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:18:02 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog Good riddance. Now keep going.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sgsax/statuses/117436860529990212https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sgsax/statuses/117436860529990212Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:18:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:25:41 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog Correlation is not causation! It looks like they've gone bankrupt because there's no business model in burning tokens below cost price. The enshittification and harms that caused were probably secondary.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/yojimbo/statuses/117436654680555093https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/yojimbo/statuses/117436654680555093Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:25:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:24:59 GMT]]>@Oldmikie @GossiTheDog No it didn't, and that's precisely the problem. It didn't know what it was doing, and humans didn't train it to do that. (Why on earth would they train it to do that? Dead bodies make very poor customers.) It didn't know what it was doing because it doesn't know anything except what token is most likely to come next and most likely to trigger its reward function.

It doesn't know the difference between a statement that's true and a statement that's false, or the difference between a statement that's appropriate to say and one that isn't. There is no safeguard that can be applied to an LLM that can make it not tell children to kill themselves for the same reason there's no safeguard that can prevent it from hallucinating.

That's why these were a bad idea from the jump.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://furry.engineer/users/AVincentInSpace/statuses/117436651920264194https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://furry.engineer/users/AVincentInSpace/statuses/117436651920264194Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:24:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:05:30 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog Good

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/gavinisdie/statuses/117436575302952281https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/gavinisdie/statuses/117436575302952281Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:05:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:00:45 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog That AI knew what it was doing and humans trained it to do it. The developers figured they did not need human monitoring.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Oldmikie/statuses/117436556590723082https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Oldmikie/statuses/117436556590723082Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:00:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:46:50 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog Didn't Google eat all the employees and IP from that company like six months ago.

I'd be happier if it wasn't a discarded shell of corporate evil.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kind.social/ap/users/116963749659105386/statuses/117436501905478936https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kind.social/ap/users/116963749659105386/statuses/117436501905478936Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:46:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:15:01 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog
Quotes from the article:
"maximize value for all of our stakeholders"
and
"psychological harm and wrongful death to users"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/hadokowa/statuses/117436376795979377https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/hadokowa/statuses/117436376795979377Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:15:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:02:59 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog One down...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/Canuckduff/statuses/117436329471007203https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/Canuckduff/statuses/117436329471007203Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:02:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:32:55 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog GOOD. Fuck em

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/intelgraphy/statuses/117436211229136737https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/intelgraphy/statuses/117436211229136737Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:32:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:02 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog

*dancing spiderman gif*

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/117436192039487430https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/117436192039487430Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:28:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:58 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog

These are the dullards who created a system allowing the creation of "chat bots" based on murdered children -- including my daughter.

After promising otherwise, media outlets confirmed that CharacterAI's system still allowed them to create bots with my daughter's name and photo.

reverse acquihired CAI for $2.7B.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://games.ngo/users/crecente/statuses/117436172075530445https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://games.ngo/users/crecente/statuses/117436172075530445Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:22:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:18:19 GMT]]>@Tim_Eagon @GossiTheDog ugh

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/beeoproblem/statuses/117436153847809672https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/beeoproblem/statuses/117436153847809672Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:18:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:42:18 GMT]]>@Tim_Eagon @beeoproblem d

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cyberplace.social/users/GossiTheDog/statuses/117436012231682459https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cyberplace.social/users/GossiTheDog/statuses/117436012231682459Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:42:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:41:36 GMT]]>@beeoproblem @GossiTheDog Disney is bidding to buy some of the assets after Chapter 11.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/Tim_Eagon/statuses/117436009447232103https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dice.camp/users/Tim_Eagon/statuses/117436009447232103Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:41:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:37:17 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog is bankruptcy even enough for these clowns? no sir, it is not.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sfba.social/users/joshbuddy/statuses/117435992451614106https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sfba.social/users/joshbuddy/statuses/117435992451614106Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:37:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:30:41 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog finally, some good news in the AI space

I hope it ends up as chapter 7 with nobody picking up the pieces

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/beeoproblem/statuses/117435966554019807https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/beeoproblem/statuses/117435966554019807Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:30:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Character on Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:23:56 GMT]]>@GossiTheDog <“oh well” meme>

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/deepthoughts10/statuses/117435939953105804https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/deepthoughts10/statuses/117435939953105804Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:23:56 GMT